Cookies on This Site

Tbilisi Tbilisidrive · Tbilisi, Georgia

This policy lists every cookie that can reach your browser while you use tbilisidrive.com, whether you are comparing economy cars for a trip to the Old Town or filling in pickup details for Tbilisi International Airport. Tbilisi Tbilisidrive runs a comparison and booking site: the vehicles you find here belong to independent Tbilisi suppliers listed through the LocalRent platform, and the rental agreement is between you and that supplier, not with us. A few of the cookies described below are placed by LocalRent's own booking widget rather than by this domain, and they exist so a search that starts on our page can turn into a confirmed reservation on theirs.

We are not an advertising network. We do not build cross-site profiles of visitors and we do not sell browsing data. The sections below cover, in order, what a cookie actually is, the full table of categories and lifetimes, a closer look at each category, how to manage or remove cookies in the four browsers most people read this page in, and what changes if you switch them off.

1. What a cookie is

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to keep and return on later requests. It cannot open other files on your device, run software, or read what is happening in a different tab; its only job is to give an otherwise stateless connection a short memory. A session cookie disappears the moment you close the browser window. A persistent cookie carries an expiry date and stays until that date arrives or you clear it yourself, which is the distinction the table in the next section relies on.

Two related techniques behave the same way in practice and are covered by everything on this page. Local storage holds small values inside the browser without sending them on every request, and a script loaded from another company's domain, such as the booking widget, can read cookies that domain already set. If you treat "cookie" here as shorthand for that whole family, nothing below needs a separate explanation.

2. The cookie categories we use, and how long each one lasts

Individual cookie names change every time a supplier updates its software, so listing them one by one would go stale within weeks. The categories below do not change, and they are what actually determines what a cookie is allowed to do.

If a browser privacy panel shows a cookie on tbilisidrive.com that does not match a row above, it almost certainly belongs to the booking widget and only appears once you start a car search.

3. Essential cookies: session, language and search state

Three small pieces of memory keep the site behaving like a website rather than a pile of unconnected pages. The session cookie is a random identifier that links your requests together while the browser stays open, paired with a token that proves a form on this site was actually submitted from this site. The language cookie stores which of our eighteen translations you opened last, so a reader who picked Georgian or Russian is not dropped back into English on the next page. The search state cookie keeps the pickup point, the dates and times, and the filter you clicked, so moving from an airport guide to a page about no deposit cars does not throw away what you already typed.

None of these three carries your name, your email address or any payment detail, and none is shared outside tbilisidrive.com. Under GDPR they count as strictly necessary or as a preference you actively chose, which is why they load without asking for consent first.

4. Booking widget cookies set by the LocalRent platform

The live car search embedded on our pages is a widget supplied by LocalRent, the booking platform that connects tbilisidrive.com to independent suppliers across Georgia. Once it loads, it runs a script from its own domain, and that script can set its own cookies. Their job is entirely practical: hold your pickup location and rental dates together, keep the price you were quoted stable between the results list and the payment page, remember which car you opened so pressing back does not lose your place, and hand your finished reservation to the supplier who will meet you with the keys.

Because those cookies belong to LocalRent, Tbilisi Tbilisidrive cannot read their contents, edit them, or delete them on your behalf. They fall under the platform's own privacy documentation, linked from inside the booking screens. Our part ends at embedding the widget and writing the guides around it. The deposit rules, the fuel policy and the condition of the vehicle are agreed between you and the supplier named on your voucher.

5. Analytics

We run basic audience measurement aimed at pages, not people. It tells us how many visits a page gets, roughly which country a visit came from, whether it arrived from a search engine or a direct link, and whether someone reading about airport pickup goes on to open the car search. That is enough to see which pages deserve more work and which do not. Where the tool supports it, IP addresses are shortened or removed before we see a report, data is kept for roughly thirteen months, and what reaches us is counts and trends rather than a record tied to one visitor.

Analytics cookies are never required for anything you do on this site. Blocking them changes nothing about your ability to search, compare or book; it simply removes one visit from a monthly count you will never see.

6. Affiliate attribution cookies and what they track

This site is funded by commission. When a reservation started on our pages is completed, the booking platform pays Tbilisi Tbilisidrive a share of its own fee, and that share never raises the price you pay. Making that work requires something to remember where a booking began, and that something is an attribution cookie set by LocalRent the moment you open the search or click through to an offer.

What it typically holds is narrow: an identifier for this website as a partner, a reference for the click or session, a timestamp, and sometimes the page you arrived from. It does not hold your name, your email address, your driving licence details or your card number; it is a receipt for the referral, not a profile of you. The window is usually around 30 days, so comparing cars in Tbilisi today and booking three weeks later still credits the referral correctly. It is never used to target you with adverts, never merged with data from other sites, and never sold.

Removing it costs you nothing. Your booking, your quoted price and your rights against the supplier stay exactly the same; only our commission disappears.

7. How to manage or delete cookies in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge

Every cookie named on this page can be viewed, removed or refused directly from your browser settings, with no need to contact us. The steps below match the current desktop menus for the four browsers most readers of tbilisidrive.com arrive with. A private or incognito window is the fastest shortcut: anything it stores is thrown away once the last such window closes.

8. What happens if you block them

The consequences are quite different from one category to the next, so it is worth being precise rather than switching everything off and wondering why the site stops working. Refusing the language cookie is harmless: the site forgets which translation you picked and reopens in English next time. Refusing analytics is equally harmless and invisible to you. Refusing the affiliate attribution cookie costs you nothing at all and only affects our commission.

Blocking session cookies is a different matter. Forms stop submitting because the security token behind them can no longer be verified, and your search state resets on every page you open. Blocking third-party cookies outright, or turning on the strictest tracking-prevention mode, usually stops the LocalRent widget from holding your dates together, and can prevent a reservation from finishing at the payment step. If the car search starts behaving oddly, that setting is the first thing worth checking, followed by any ad-blocking extension, which can sometimes stop the widget script from loading in the first place.

9. Changes to this policy and how to reach us

If the cookies on this website change, whether because we add a new tool or LocalRent updates its own widget, this page is revised and the date at the bottom always matches the version you are reading. You can ask what is currently stored for your browser, request that analytics data tied to your visit be deleted, or raise any other question about cookies on tbilisidrive.com by writing to [email protected]. We reply as quickly as we can. Questions about a reservation you have already made are best sent to the supplier named on your booking voucher, since the rental contract sits with them.

Last updated: 24 August 2026